Your diet for prostatitis?

I think you mean proctitis. Dietary mods are probably not all that meaningful for disease limited to the rectum. You should definitely consider probiotics, and you might consider adding psyllium.

Have your vitamin D level checked too.

I hate to tell you this, but the diagnosis can't be established by trying a medication to see if it works. There are multiple causes of proctitis, and even for an inflammatory proctitis such as ulcerative or crohn's the same medication doesn't help everyone.

If you haven't had a colonoscopy or at least a flexible sigmoidoscopy there's no way of knowing what's going on. We can probably be of more help if you want to share the whole story with us, and we're all used to those long sad stories because we all have had our own and been listened to here.

Ok well here's the longer story,

in Sep 2011 i had this hard bowel movement (bm) that caused excruciating pain. i went to my colorectal dr. because i had recently had my hemmorhoids stapled via the ORegan procedure so i thought it was a fissure and so did she (though she couldn't find one). after 3 months she said, must be pelvic floor dysfunction.

after that i had a hard time sitting and the flare died down very slowly. it was sort of on "very low" when i was traveling last month, and with the plane, hotel room, etc, (air conditioning) i got constipated. another hard bm. new bad flare. visited a general surgeon who did the ORegan procedure in the place where i was traveling, he looked inside with (an anuscope?), your hemmies are fine, no fissure, but i see some inflammation. you need a new colonoscopy.

well it's only been 7 years, i got clean bill of health on it. so i came back and GI doc said, your symptoms sound like proctitis, here is some Canasa, take this and let's see if this helps before we do a colonoscopy.

that's the long story... burning pain with bm but now i use ice right away and careful to only go once a day (that helps a lot!).

still can't sit for long (need heat or ice.) yikes!

I see you've been a member since 2010... were you previously diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis of some kind?

Your doctors dont seem very concerned. A flex sig scope isnt that big of a deal, procedure wise, and if they think it's limited to the rectum, then I am surprised they wouldnt just set one up right away.

also: Prostatitis (less commonly prostatosis) is inflammation of the prostate gland.

thanks, everyone~

no i didn't have uc before the 2011 incident (if that's what it was) - it came soon after my ORegan hemmie procedure though which was needed after doctors gave me too many meds at once, causing diarrhea.
(i used to be kind of the opposite before that).
had no idea i was at risk.

anyway... yes i guess if the canasa doesn't work i should ask for the flex sig before a colonoscopy.
this is all so new to me, i feel like i am in another world almost.
thanks everyone.

i have been on healingwell for other reasons hence the 2010 signing date.

the description seems to fit pretty well in some respects but not others. the burning, yes. no blood, however.